#spirit any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
supertype: spiritual_being__spiritualbeing__supernatural_being an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events
subtype: control.spirit a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
subtype: evil_spirit a spirit tending to cause harm
subtype: bad_fairy__badfairy a fairy that tends to cause harm
subtype: bogie__bogey__bogy an evil spirit
subtype: daemon__devil__fiend__demon__daimon one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
subtype: incubus a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
subtype: succubus__succuba a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
subtype: dybbuk__dibbuk (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior
subtype: cacodemon__cacodaemon (Greek) an evil spirit
subtype: ghoul an evil spirit or ghost
subtype: goblin__hob__hobgoblin (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
subtype: kelpy__kelpie (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
subtype: vampire__lamia (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
instance: Mephistopheles
subtype: banshee (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death
subtype: genie__jinni__jinnee__djinni__djinny a spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals
subtype: Eblis the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology
subtype: familiar_spirit__familiar a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
subtype: peri (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
subtype: specter__phantom__spectre a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
instance: Flying_Dutchman.specter__flyingdutchman
subtype: presence.spirit an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby
subtype: numen a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion)
subtype: python.spirit a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
subtype: sylvan__silvan a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods
subtype: thunderbird (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird
subtype: zombi_spirit__zombispirit__zombi__zombie__zombie_spirit (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
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